Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alice Hoffman

He wanted pain, I saw that in him, and what a man wants he will often manage to find.

Alice Hoffman

I really feel like the gift is also the curse. It's always half-and-half. Whatever brings you the most joy will also probably bring you the most pain. Always a price to pay

Alice Hoffman

How could I tell the doctor what was wrong with me? I didn't understand it myself. I couldn't articulate the pain; it was the pain of nothingness. My fear was of the weather, the atmosphere, the very air. What good did safety tips do me now? 'Avoid water, metal objects, rooftops; stay off the telephone in a storm, don't think glass can protect you; even if a storm was 8 miles away, you're still not safe from a strike. Avoid life perhaps that was the answer. The number one safety tip, stay away from it all.

Alice Childress

The Black writer explains pain to those who inflict it.

... hunger and cold, ill-health and pain are nothing. They pass. The thing that remains is ignorant criticism, well-meaning but futile advice, the contempt of a subordinate, the feelings of the underdog.

Alice Cooper

He lies right at you, you know you hate this game. He slaps you once in a while and you live and love in pain.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

... once you get beyond the crust of the first pang it is all the same and you can easily bear it. It is just the transition from painlessness to pain that is so terrible.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Beauty cannot disguise nor music melt A pain undiagnosable but felt.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The signs that presage growth, so similar, it seems to me, to those in early adolescence: discontent, restlessness, doubt, despair, longing, are interpreted falsely as signs of decay. In youth one does not as often misinterpret the signs; one accepts them, quite rightly, as growing pains. One takes them seriously, listens to them, follows where they lead. ... But in the middle age, because of the false assumption that it is a period of decline, one interprets these life-signs, paradoxically, as signs of approaching death.

Anne Lamott

All I know is that after 10 years of being sober, with huge support to express my pain and anger and shadow, the grief and tears didn’t wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet. They brought me home, to me, to the truth of me.

Ann Jillian

If you've ever had a brush with cancer, you're always thinking a pain might be something serious.

Ann Jillian

I want all my pain to count for something.

Ann Brashares

You surround yourself with your pain or you avoid it and let it find you when you are trying to do other things

Ann Brashares

Pain is fear, and I'm not afraid.

Ann Coulter

To expiate the pain of losing her firstborn son in the Iraq war, Cindy Sheehan decided to cheer herself up by engaging in Stalinist agitprop outside President Bush's Crawford ranch, ... It's the strangest method of grieving I've seen since Paul Wellstone's funeral. Someone needs to teach these liberals how to mourn.

Andy Behrman

Like Sylvia Plath, Natalie Jeanne Champagne invites you so close to the pain and agony of her life of mental illness and addiction, which leaves you gasping from shock and laughing moments later: this is both the beauty and unique nature of her storytelling. With brilliance and courage, the author's brave and candid chronicle travels where no other memoir about mental illness and addiction has gone before. The Third Sunrise is an incredible triumph and Natalie Jeanne Champagne is without a doubt the most important new voice in this genre.

Andy Dick

I laugh when I see people in pain. Sometimes I think it is a defense mechanism from childhood, where you're in so much pain you have to laugh. It is a survival mechanism.

Andrea Corr

I hate people who splash their own pain on covers, like the whole world should hear about them. Why are we all supposed to be interested in one individual's suffering?

Andrea Gibson

Say this is what the pain made of you: an open, open, open road, an avalanche of feel it all.

Andrea Gibson

Don't google your name. Ever. Don't “search” for yourself on anything that glows in the dark. Don't let your beauty be something anyone can turn off. Don't edit your ugly out of your bio. Let your light come from the fire. Let your pain be the spark, but not the timber. Remember, you didn't come here to write your heart out. You came to write it in.

Andrea Gibson

Do you think anger is a sincere emotion or the timid motion of a fragile heart trying to beat away its pain?

Aesop

Expect no reward when you serve the wicked, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pain

Aeschylus

Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers.

Aeschylus

Take courage; pain's extremity soon ends.

Aeschylus

In visions of the night, like dropping rain, Descend the many memories of pain.

Aeschylus

Wisdom comes through suffering. Trouble, with its memories of pain, Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep, So men against their will Learn to practice moderation. Favours come to us from gods.

Aeschylus

For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.

Alexander McCall Smith

Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?

Alexander Pope

Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress, Or Learning's Luxury or idleness, Or tricks, to show the stretch of the human brain Mere curious pleasure or ingenious pain.

Alexander Pope

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

Alexander Pope

Die of a rose in aromatic pain.

Alexander Pope

You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.

Alexander Pope

He best can paint them who shall feel them most.